Question

【題目】

How would you feel if moving to a new town meant losing track of your friends? What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters that took ages to be delivered（遞送）? This was how things worked not very long ago. Thanks to advances in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed greatly.

Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch with our friends. Social media tools（社交媒體工具） let us see what our friends are busy with and maintain friendships.

The digital （數(shù)字）age also enables us to find people who share our interests. Whatever our hobbies, the Internet can connect us with others who also enjoy doing them, even if they live on the other side of the world.

But when you friend people online, does this mean that they really are your friends? It depends.

If people always exchange true personal information online, then yes, these friendships can be real and meaningful. But we need to remember that what we see on social media is often not the whole truth about a person. Sometimes smiling photos can hide real problems. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. A young person could be old；a woman could be a man；we could even be sharing our information with criminals.

But this doesn't mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. Although technology has changed the way we acquire（獲得）friends, the meaning of friendship and our longing for friends remain the same. As Aristotle said, no one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods.

【1】Ways of making friends and communicating with them have changed greatly because of ________.

【2】To stay in touch with our faraway friends, we can ________.

【3】Online friendships can be real and meaningful if people ________ with each other.

【4】The phrase “throw the baby out with the bathwater” means “________” in Chinese.

【5】This passage mainly talks about ________ of making friends online.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】advances in technology/ developments in technology

【2】use social media tools

【3】exchange true personal information/share true personal information

【4】丟棄不想要的東西的同時失去寶貴的東西

【5】advantages and disadvantages

【解析】

本文是一篇議論文，論述了發(fā)達的網絡技術使得人們交友和保持友誼更簡單了；但網絡是把雙刃劍，網絡上的友情有真也有假，所以人們也要謹慎。

【1】

根據(jù)“Thanks to advances in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed greatly”，可知是因為技術的發(fā)展，故答案為advances in technology/ developments in technology。

【2】

根據(jù)“Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch with our friends. Social media tools（社交媒體工具） let us see what our friends are busy with and maintain friendships”，可知我們可以使用社交工具，故答案為use social media tools。

【3】

根據(jù)“If people always exchange true personal information online, then yes, these friendships can be real and meaningful”，可知是如果人們交換真實的個人信息，那就是真的友誼，故答案為exchange true personal information/share true personal information。

【4】

該句字面意思為“把孩子連洗澡水一起丟掉”，再結合作者的觀點，可知其深層含義是“丟棄不想要的東西的同時失去寶貴的東西”，故答案為“丟棄不想要的東西的同時失去寶貴的東西”。

【5】

通讀全文，可知文章主要論述了在網上交友的好處和壞處，故答案為advantages and disadvantages。